Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...patio below, Dr. Leopoldo Melo, head of the Argentine delegation, slouched in a wicker chair, gesturing with small, delicate hands to emphasize his soft-voiced Spanish sentences. Behind him as interpreter stood handsome, black-haired, flashing-eyed Luis Mariano Zuberbuhler, secretary of the delegation. No newcomer to Pan-American conferences, a stanch U. S. friend is scholarly Buenos Aires Lawyer Melo, onetime Radical Antiper-sonalista (conservative) Deputy & Senator, onetime Minister of Interior. At the Panama meeting last autumn he went over the head of Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, appealed directly to President Roberto M. Ortiz, threatened to resign unless...
Some Wylie selections: best quiz show, Information Please; best human interest, We, the People; best variety, Kate Smith's hour; best fun, Fred Allen's; best melodrama, Gang Busters' dramatization of Bank Robber Eddie Doll's career; best children's shows, Ireene Wicker's musicked Alice in Wonderland, The Nuremberg Stove from the Let's Pretend series; best verse, Archibald MacLeish's Air Raid, Norman Corwin's Seems Radio Is Here to Stay; best news dramatization, THE MARCH OF TIME; best spot news reporting, Jack Knell's on the Squalus...